November 11, 2013
What's up. Today is
exactly my 2 month mark since stepping foot into the MTC. Crazy. It has been
the biggest roller coaster 2 months of my life. Honestly it's been insane.
There have been times where all I wanted to do was lay down, cry, then go to
sleep, but 30 minutes later, something will happen to where I know that
Heavenly Father is watching over me, and I usually do cry then, cause I can
feel his love.
This week was really
good. We had a couple lessons with Breanna. She has come a long way since we
even got here, but she still hasn't talked with her parents, and her baptism is
Saturday. We're trying so hard to get her to tell her parents, but she's really
scared. It seems like after every lesson she is ready to shout it to the world,
but then she doesn't. So hopefully she does today. Her goal is to do it by
today.
We also set another
baptismal date! Her name is Toni. She is about 50 years old and she is almost
blind. But with her glasses she can see alright, and she is a wizard painter.
She showed us what she did for the kids of Sandy Hook Elementary. I was in
shock. It was one of the coolest things I've ever seen. She studies the kids so
much. In the painting, they were all angels on their way up to Heaven, and they
each had something that represented them. She even made the painting look like
them. Each individual child and teacher. It was so cool. Anyway, she has been
taught for a couple months. She told us that she will be baptized from the
first time we spoke to her, but she is going through a really bad divorce, and
felt like she had to finish that before she got baptized. We talked to her
about it, and showed her David A. Bednar's Light of Christ mormon message. We
told her that she didn't have to wait, and how much being baptized and having
the guiding gift of the Holy Ghost would help her through this awful divorce.
She told us about it, it really is bad. She said she felt she should be
baptized soon, and asked what day we wanted to do it. We told her Nov. 23. And
then she got thinking and asked if we could do it on Thanksgiving, and so we
said WHY NOT. So we have a Thanksgiving baptism. I'm so excited.
We spoke in Sacrament. I
will send you a copy, cause I won't lie, My talk was incredible. I don't say
that usually, but I could feel it as I was speaking. Elder Fenton's was really
good . I had a
member of the bishopric pull me aside after and tell me it was a "general
Conference worthy talk." It was so cool.
This was yesterday.
Things were going so good. Then we had a couple members step in. So they were
talking about Home Teaching in Elder's Quorum. Their home teaching percentage
was 33. yeah. 33. So we talked about it. Not us, the quorum. They were
having a discussion on it, and we added some things to the discussion. It was
all fine and dandy.
So we have this dry
Mormon. He goes every week, his family is all baptized, but he is not. He is
the dad. And talking to the members, we have been referred to him by about 10
families. That he needs the missionaries. Well, we talked about that in ward
council. later, we had a member tell us who his home teachers are, and what
they are doing. Apparently, instead of helping him understand priesthood power,
they take in deep theories (not doctrine) and have huge discussions on those.
Anyone who knows missionary work knows that deep theories will never answer
simple questions. So we wanted to just talk with the home teacher about
simplifying and bearing simple truths. So we called him and asked how he was
doing, and how Brother Wilkie (the dry mormon) was doing. We didn't even get to
talk after that. He proceeded to tell us that we were offensive, and we had no
business talking to these men who were older than us and had been on missions
and telling them what to do. He told us "you may be full time
missionaries, but you are still young and don't know what you are doing."
He told us he wants to meet with us in person so there's no confusion. He also
said "we will teach brother Wilkie, and when he's ready to be baptized, we
will call you to do the interview." in other words, back off.
So, There's my
continuing roller coaster here in Casa Grande. It really has been so good. 97%
of the members here are AWESOME. So we will continue to work with them.
Have a good week! I love
you all!
Love, Elder Scott Jackson Taylor.
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